I was only able to find one Green Candle today, but I sent it your way. <3 C woke up with a low grade fever today, so we had to bail on Matka Canyon, so I had time to dig. ^^

Look at you, actually doing all of the quests! I'm sure Fungus appreciates it! I only ever do the quests whose rewards I want, so it's mostly Lord Wuffel "The Hooded Stranger's" quests. ;P

Mem is a lifesaver when it comes to event or limited items you've missed! I've definitely been in her selling forum too many times to count! And she's so sweet too, which is a plus!


Oh, the checklist thing is VITAL for me! I write lists for everything. Usually on my phone, so I don't waste the paper (bc I have chronic guilt issues). It's SO satisfying to be able to delete that task from existence, and my memory, once it's done. Whoohoo!!! You're on the final stretch!!!! You can do it!!!!

Ooh, I love Zuppa Toscana! It's, like, the only thing from Olive Garden that I like. Def send me the recipe if it came out well - I would LOVE to know how to make it on my own!

It's been raining here off and on all month. We've actually been trying to go to Matka Canyon since our anniversary....on the 12th! But every day was either raining, something happened (one of us was sick, C didn't sleep the night before, etc.). C's pretty disappointed - it was one of the few things he really wanted to do in Skopje, and we are gonna miss it. It was actually suppose to be our anniversary date! But ah well, can't help being sick. This happened in Sofia, too - last two weeks it rained pretty much constantly. The last day before we left it was sunny, so we had planned on going to the big church that I had wanted to see, as well as a nearby church that had a wishing well that was suppose to grant miracles, then go pack shopping since C's pack died. C woke up sick. I ended up going pack shopping alone, then spent the rest of the day packing up and getting the house ready for move out, and taking care of C. Poor kid feels horrible, but what can you do? We've been getting sick a LOT lately. I think our bodies don't have the immunities to what they've got over here, since one of us is sick at least once a week with either a stomach bug or a cold of some variety. It's been exhausting. It was like this when we first started traveling, too, but our immune system slowly adapted. But it's been a couple of years living in the US, and we haven't spent any time in the Balkans before, so we've been having a rough time of it. Neither of us have appendixes, so our immune systems are shot. ; A;

Yeah, Firn doesn't seem really fond of tiny horns. Which partially makes sense, because she often makes very big, elaborate hairstyles where the horns would either get lost or layer weird - nothing like a glitch where your horns clip through your bangs! But with how many updo's she has, I wish we had more tiny horns that didn't hide the pretty hair designs.

Did that train derailment affect your area of NY? I heard about it (mostly through memes, actually - nothing says "I live in a country where my government doesn't care about me" quite like hearing about ecological disasters through the memes people create to cope with the anxiety surrounding them, rather than an actual news report), but I wasn't sure where you were located in comparison.

Yeah, but that's exactly why there SHOULD be wifi trading! There are so many species that are region locked! And yeah, you're suppose to get outside and talk to people, but not everyone has the ability to fly halfway across the world to fill out their pokedex! I would understand if they limited it to Best Friends, so that people didn't spam trade from across the world. But imho there should be SOME way to trade without having to walk up to strangers and be like "BE MY FRIEND ON THIS GAME". X'D Haven't you learned by now that nerds don't always have friends outside of the internet, Nintendo??? Well, I guess this is Niantic, but same difference. I'm actually particularly salty about it rn bc I'm working through a piece of field research that requires a trade to move on to the next step, but C doesn't have Pokemon Go on his phone, so I'm just...stuck on that quest with no way to proceed. >:(

Congrats on finishing all of Fungus' quests!!!!
Lucky for you, I JUST finished slaying a four-eyed dragon on my way over here. I sent you over his eyes, so that you can turn them in for that sweet, sweet bounty. ;3

What quests are you going to move on to now that Fungus is satisfied?

That is VERY good to know! I love zuppa toscana, but I don't exactly think I need an entire GALLON of it! X'D I'm sure your classmates were thrilled!

That's actually a good idea on the probiotics. I will just have to figure out how to ask for that in Macedonian at the pharmacy! X'D Sometimes I hate that European countries only sell otc meds at the pharmacy behind the counter - sometimes I just need to pick up something simple, like ibuprofen or vitamin d and don't want to go through the twenty minute back-and-forth because I don't speak this language. >.<

C and I both got the original boosters, but haven't had the opportunity to get the omnicron booster yet. It's complicated when traveling, since you have to find a doctor who accepts out-of-country, no insurance patients, who speak english, and use scheduling software in english, and will take cash, and don't have a very long wait time for appointments, and are a reputable hospital with good practices....etc etc etc. For example, most businesses in North Macedonia don't have websites, so if we get sick here I have absolutely no idea how we'd even find a doctor. x.x Some countries are easier than others.

I love the Tegg horns! I actually have five pairs atm. X'D I'm a bit obsessed with WK items. I'm actually bummed, because I'm almost out of WK to level up, but it seems like people very rarely post new WK in the shop anymore. I'm going to be sad when my supply of WK items dries up. It's crazy, because I actually was worried that I'd never level all of them up because I bought FAR too many at one point. And yet here I am, worried about running out now!

Well, I'm glad you were outside of the immediate danger zone. But that's scary as shit! The US is a hellhole, and I am so happy to not be there anymore. It scares the piss out of me that all of my loved ones are still there.
We could have had fully-automated gay luxury space communism! Who the HELL voted for the dystopia option???

Right?? Wifi trading with Best Friends would be fine. Make it something you have to work for! Even if it was a further level up, like Ultra Best Friends, or something equally ridiculous sounding. Just let it be possible.

UGH! I've been on the countdown to level 50 for what feels like forever because there's a jacket I want to unlock. But I'm only at 33, so it's going to be awhile. I'm actually really sad, there isn't a pokemon stop or gym near my apartment, and with my international roaming data turned off, I can't really play unless I can play from home. So I'll have to wait and see if I lucked out on the placement of my apartment next month. ; ^; Boo.

I sent over the yellow balloons and earth rings you needed. Apparently my knuffels like helping you with your quests much more than they like helping me with mine. Traitors.

Looks like I was right about the digging items updating soon. I'm missing so many of the past set. Which is a bummer, because I think the only item I will ever use from the new digging set are the Darkness and Water Check Designs. :< Oh well. Maybe I can trade some of the newer designs for the past ones I've missed.

Oh! That's a good point! I hadn't even thought about the fact that I wouldn't have a record of the any booster I got abroad in the US system. And I doubt they'd even write it on my US vaccine card. Or if that'd even be a good idea! ; A; Ah well, guess the best I can do is wear masks and try to be careful. I stick out like a sore thumb here because I'm the only one who wears them (literally haven't seen a single person wear a mask my entire month in Ohrid, and only saw one person in Skopje and one person in Sofia x.x ), but I'd rather be awkward and weird than unable to breathe, so? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The only silver lining is that the Boomers are quickly dying off, and Gen X was never big enough to make a huge difference in the polls, so soon Millennials will have a real pull in making legislative decisions soon. Let's just hope we can keep what rights we have until then!

Yeah, looks like I won't be near any pokestops or gyms next month either. Our airbnb in Vlore, Albania fell through last minute, so instead of trying to scramble to find another place for way more expensive we decided to stay in Ohrid for another month. But the place we are staying is on the ass end of town, so no way we'll be near anything. I'm actually kinda bummed, bc Airbnb doesn't show you exactly where the house is until you book for "security reasons", just a wide radius of about where it is, and it turns out it's kinda far from the nearest grocery. Which is a bummer, since we have to buy all of our own water here, because the tap water makes us sick. Which is going to mean a lot of lugging heavy ass groceries AND water a few kilometers probably every day or every other day, since I can only carry so much at a time. :< Bummer.

By the way, shouldn't your semester be coming to an end soon? When are you off for the summer? (Well, "off".) When do you start up at the pharmacy? Do you get a little break in-between to recoop after finals?